Bad list subscriber. No donut!

[unixronin]

Pet peeve of the moment:  People who go on vacation, turn on their stupid vacation autoresponder, and can't be bothered either to set it up not to spam the mailing lists they read, or to temporarily turn off delivery on the frelling lists until they get back.  I just answered a question on sunhelp and got spammed with no less than EIGHT vacation notices in three languages.

It's bloody inconsiderate, not to mention rude.  The odds are that fifty thousand people worldwide have no interest in knowing that you'll be on vacation until the 12th of next month, and especially don't care to be reminded of it again after every message they send to the list.

Comments

[ithildae.livejournal.com]

It is just a symptom of ever-present feature cre[ea]p. Email works just fine. Commercial developer wants to get in on email market. Marketing dreams up useful new features so that people will buy package. Result, major ugliness. Marketing folk want stuff to sell, working well is an added benefit, (that they can charge extra for.)

Just think for a moment, what if thieves started to monitor mail lists? Find out who is not home and for how long, easy. It takes a special level of idiocy to broadcast that type of information. Let's not even mention pissing off a bunch of folk you depend on for help.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

All that. :)

[otherbill.livejournal.com]

Well, at least the vacation autoreponders are smart enough not to send out vacation notices in response to other people's vacation notices...

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

We should be thankful for small mercies, I guess.

[mrmeval.livejournal.com]

Depending on how well their system is you can forge an email with their address in the from or reply to field and crash their email system. Not as easy as it once was but still useful. :)